Mechanisms determining the atmospheric response to midlatitude SST anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 1393-1408

  Peng, Shiling ^a,b   Whitaker, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; LINEAR STORM TRACK MODEL; MIDLATITUDE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MIDLATITUDE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032825168     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1393:mdtart>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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